Biography of 'COCOZZA, Enrico'
Films associated with 'COCOZZA, Enrico'
- AD INFERNUM BUDDY?
- ALASSIO 1954
- BEFORE TIME CAME
- BONGO EROTICO
- BOTTLE, the
- BRYAN WELCOMES RAFFLES / LA MORT ET LE POETE
- CAMEO
- CAPPELLA OF ENCHANTMENT, the
- CAPRICCIO
- CAT, the
- CHICK'S DAY
- COCOZZA FAMILY RECORDS
- CORKY
- CRABBIT GRANNY
- FANTASMAGORIA
- FERRY FLIRT
- FIRENZE AND SIENA
- GLASGOW'S DOCKLANDS
- INCUBO
- INVOCATION
- LIVING GHOST, the
- MASQUERADE
- MEET THE STARS
- NINE O'CLOCK
- OLD AND THE NEW, the
- PETROL
- PLUGGERS' PICNIC, the
- PORPHYRIA
- RIC HAS A BATH
- ROBOT THREE
- SAIL TO INVERARAY
- SCENES AT WEST CROSS
- SCHERZO
- SMART BOY WANTED
- TOURISTS, the
- TWILIGHT
- WESTX INTERVUS
- WHITE LADY, the
Amateur film-maker and academic
Born: 1921, November
Died: 1997, December, Wishaw
Cocozza, the son of immigrant Italians who ran a cafe in Wishaw, was one of Scotland's most unusual and remarkable film makers. Although an academic by profession he also pursued an 'underground' career making movies. Using amateur casts and crews, and filming in and around his home town in Lanarkshire, he produced films like no other Scot of his generation.
His movies ranged from the strange and surreal Nine O'Clock to the pessimistic social realism of Chick's Day which won the UK Amateur Cine World 'Ten Best competition in 1951. He established the Connoisseur Film Circle with a small auditorium at the rear of the family cafŽ in Wishaw for screening of continental and art films to fellow enthusiasts.
Over some 50 years he produced films both in Scotland during his visits to Italy, observational and reportage of Main Street Wishaw, and a suite of surreal, avant-garde work that often baffled audiences at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival accustomed to more conventional films. One of the more enduring titles is Glasgow's Docklands made for Educational Films of Scotland.
His was a controversial career blighted later in life by illness that affected his sight.
Researcher: Scottish Screen Archive